This blog will appear on the second and fourth Monday of each month. It will contain suggestions and mini lessons in everyday English. We’ll discuss grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary. We also include one or two Idioms of the Day. Idioms are common expressions. You hear them often, but sometimes they are confusing. The words may be easy, but the expression doesn’t make sense. Every language has them. They’re fun, and will help you to understand native speakers. There will also be something you can download from each posting. It may be a vocabulary list. It may be a list of irregular verbs. It may be a website. But it will be something you can use.
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What words or sounds are especially challenging for you to pronounce? Do you avoid certain English words (like “beach” or “sheet”) because you’re afraid of accidentally saying a bad word?
Did you know there are three distinct ways to pronounce the past tense ‘ed’ sound in English? Have you ever noticed these three distinct sounds when talking in the past
Have you ever wanted to learn how to express routines and new intentions in English? Or how about what you want to start doing in your life in English? ¿Alguna
Adjectives ending in -ed or -ing can be confusing. For example, when the bilingual mother of my friend answered the phone and it was a sales call, she would politely
This blog post is in English first, followed by Spanish. Scroll down to read it in Spanish. Do you ever wonder when should you use which of these verbs: look,
Collocations are two or more words that go together in an expression, such as fast food, pay attention, or happily married. Collocations make our vocabulary richer. They make it easier
Many or much? A few or a little? Fewer or less? How do you know which of these words to use when you are describing the quantity of something? This
When you listen to conversations in English, you will hear the verb to get in many different contexts. It is one of the 100 most common words in the English
Thinking in English will help your language skills to grow. It is possible to teach yourself to think in a second language. In this posting I talk about 8 ways
Numbers mean the same thing in every language. How we talk about numbers varies, however, from language to language. It even varies among countries that speak the same language. For
Punctuation marks are marks to make your written meaning clear. You may have learned something about British punctuation. Some of the rules for American punctuation are a little bit different.
There are 4 ways of expressing the future tense in English: will, be going to, the present continuous, and the simple present. In this posting I talk about each of
There are 6 ways of talking about the past in English. With each way, the meaning changes. In this posting I talk about each of the 6 ways. There will
English has many tenses, including the simple, continuous, and perfect tenses. These tenses exist in the present, past, and future. In this posting I talk about how to use all
Synonyms and antonyms are important to understand as you learn English. Knowledge of synonyms and antonyms will help your English vocabulary to grow. In this posting I talk about 10
Los Modal Verbs o verbos modales son verbos especiales en inglés ya que funcionan un poco diferente a los demás verbos. ¿Por qué? ¿Te suena chino? ¡ES INGLÉS! Pero no
Los adverbios y expresiones de frecuencia indican cada cuánto haces algo. En este post hablaremos de los adverbios y expresiones de frecuencia más comunes en inglés. También aprenderás dónde colocar
El imperativo es la forma del verbo que usamos para dar instrucciones, sugerencias o consejos. También lo usamos para dar órdenes directas. El imperativo es fácil de formar, solo necesita
Los prefijos y sufijos no son palabras en sí mismos. Son un grupo de letras que añadimos a las palabras y que cambian su significado. Hablemos de la definición de
There are many commonly misused words in English. Some of these words may have similar spellings, and some may have similar pronunciations. These words, however, have different meanings. In this
Los pronombres en inglés son palabras que pueden ser usadas para reemplazar los sustantivos, es decir, para mencionar cosas sin usar directamente su nombre. En este sentido, un pronombre puede
There are 4 sentence types in English: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. We use some of these sentence types frequently in conversation. We use others more frequently in writing. In
The present perfect continuous tense in English is used to connect the present with the past. It suggests that something was started in the past but is unfinished. In this
We form infinitives by combining to with the base form of the verb (to work). In this posting I talk about 6 ways to use infinitives. There will be many
It is easy to confuse have and get in English. Sometimes they mean almost the same thing. Often, however, they have different meanings. In this posting I talk about the
Perfect modal in English work in similar ways to perfect verb tenses. We form them with the verb have and the past participle of the main verb. When we change
Phrasal modal verbs in English are modal verbs with two or more words. Just as some verbs with two words are phrasal verbs (clean up, give away), some modals also
Plural Nouns – Regular and Irregular Plurals in English. All nouns are singular or plural. Singular nouns mean just one, while plural nouns mean more than one. In this post
The English language has many borrowed words. English is basically a Germanic language by structure. English vocabulary, however, comes from everywhere. In this posting I talk briefly about the history
Conjunctions are words we use to link other words or ideas together. In this posting I talk about 3 types of conjunctions and how they work. You will see many
Noun clauses are clauses that function as nouns. A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb. A noun is the name of a person, place,
As you may know, an adverb modifies or describes a verb, and adjective, or another adverb. A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb. Some
Relative pronouns are pronouns that give us more information about a noun in a sentence. They also help us combine two sentences into one. We know that a pronoun takes
Adjective clauses help our speech and our writing to be more interesting. We know that an adjective describes or modifies a noun or pronoun ( a large dog). We know
Many English words can function as two or more parts of speech. Sometimes even words with similar meanings can function as different parts of speech. In this posting I talk
Many English words have multiple meanings. This means that the same word, with the same spelling and pronunciation may have more than one meaning. Sometimes the meanings may be very
Homophones are two or more words with the same pronunciation but different spellings and meanings. English has many homophones. This can sometimes be confusing to people learning English. It can
Noun quantifiers give us a quantity. They tell us how much of something there is. Most of the time, noun quantifiers are not specific numbers. Instead, most quantifiers give us
Embedded questions are questions inside a statement or another question. They are not direct questions. They can be confusing because the word order is different than in direct questions.
Future time clauses talk about when a future event will happen. For this future event to happen, something else has to happen first or at the same time. In this
Reported speech is not speech that you hear directly. It is speech that someone else tells you about. For example, if you have conversation with Bob, you hear everything that
Expressing Past Habits in English: Past habits are actions of states of being that we did over and over in the past. We are no longer doing them. They are
Conditionals are sentences with the word if. They talk about what will happen, what could happen, or what could never happen. One part of the sentence contains a condition. It
The passive voice focuses on the object of a sentence rather than the subject. We use it frequently in English. In this posting I talk about when we use the
Past modal verbs talk about things that could have happened in the past. We know that modals are verbs that express ability, probability, advice, obligation, deduction, expectation, and preference. In
Modal verbs are special verbs in the English language. You may already know that they can express ability, permission, possibility, obligation, or give advice. In this posting I talk about
Adverbs are words that give us more information. They modify or give us more information about verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. In this posting I talk about 5 kinds of
Adjectives are words that describe or modify nouns or pronouns. In English they are placed in front of the noun they modify. They can also be placed in back of
The past perfect tense talks about an action in the past that happened before another action in the past. When we use the past perfect, we can tell in
